Latin America category: 3090 books
by Jaime E. Rodriguez O.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by *Choice
Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830* examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with...
Film + Travel North America, South America
Traveling the World Through Your Favorite Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Featuring color photographs of movie locations, sites, and landmarks, this guide for film buffs and travel lovers provides information about notable scenes from nearly 200 movies shot throughout North and South America. Report a fire at the hook & ladder company #8 if you want to see Ghostbusters’...
Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939
Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican...
by Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola-Vega
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today.Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending...
Victims of the Chilean Miracle
Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both...
Engendering Mayan History
Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous...
by John D. Irany
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
BEFORE 1492 presents a compelling argument, based upon known historical facts and reasonable scientific deductions, that Portuguese mariners discovered America at least a decade before Columbus set sail on the Santa María, Pinta and Niña.The primary evidence for this theory is a map, now...
The Return of the Native
Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century...
by Avalon Travel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
An ebook exclusive, Moon Central America combines Moon's full-length guides to seven Central American countries into one comprehensive digital guide.
Moon Central America includes the following country guides:
Moon Belize
Moon Costa Rica
Moon El Salvador
Moon Guatemala
Moon Honduras...
by Marla Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
A comprehensive guide to travel in Central America, including packing tips, restaurant reviews and border crossing guidelines. A quick, informative journal packed with useful links and photographsTwo Months in Central America is a comprehensive guide of what to pack, where to eat, stay and play...
Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left?...
by Manuel Llorca-Jaña
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the most important manufactures traded in the world market and Britain was the foremost producer. Thanks to new data, this book demonstrates that British exports...
Between the Middle East and the Americas
The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent...
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
Between Race and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities...